About
Dr. Mandell received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle in Developmental Psychology and her BA from the University of Texas, Austin. She also served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and the Cognitive Science Center at the University of Amsterdam. Her research has spanned multiple topics in maternal and child health with a focus on understanding the relations between early experiences and later neurocognitive outcomes. Her current work focuses on understanding individual and community-level risk and resiliency during the transition to parenthood and during the early pediatric period. She also works with her collaborators to develop and evaluate programs and systems-change projects that support families and promote optimal brain development in children.
Center Affiliation
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
Research Interests
- Biostatistics
- Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
- Maternal and Child Health
- Program Evaluation
- Social Determinants of Health